Review
" Wildly original, brutally gruesome, a dazzling performance that will outrage as many readers as it delights. Vulgarly, bitterly funny, it will not be forgotten by those who can take it" (New York Times 20031022)
"Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this" (Financial Times 20031022)
"The greatest satirical work in the English language" (Philip Toynbee, Observer 20031022)
"My all-time favourite war-novel" (Andy McNab, Spectator 20031022)
"The first real adult book I ever read, aged 13. It taught me 1) even grown-up books can be funny, 2) I never want to enlist in the armed forces" (Lionel Shriver Marie Claire )
"Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this" (Financial Times 20031022)
"The greatest satirical work in the English language" (Philip Toynbee, Observer 20031022)
"My all-time favourite war-novel" (Andy McNab, Spectator 20031022)
"The first real adult book I ever read, aged 13. It taught me 1) even grown-up books can be funny, 2) I never want to enlist in the armed forces" (Lionel Shriver Marie Claire )
Observer
The greatest satirical work in the English language since EREHWON
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